Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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One of the great dramas of history was enacted between the 3rd and 7th centuries A.D.: the slow collapse of Rome, the fading of its empire and, with it, the death of the classical world. The age of Christianity was officially brought to term when the Emperor Constantine formally embraced...
No religion ever started with a full-blown iconography. The earliest Christian work was crude and secretive, a code of graffiti?crosses and fish scratched on walls. To enrich that, to give its visual discourse a dignity to match imperial power, Christian art needed pagan symbolism. Once its early frenzies...
· The 240 tons of food and drink flown in for the postcoronation feast included cases of Chateau-Lafite Rothschild and Chateau Mouton-Rothschild ('71) wines, which sell in the U.S. for $25 a bottle. The appetizer: a tureen of caviar so large that two chefs carried it in...
All of which sounds perhaps like the last days of the Roman Empire. Yet Americans are certainly eating more wisely than they did in the days when a hunk of steer and a stack of fries were the banquet supreme. Contemporary Americans favor lighter, shorter meals?a far cry from...
For critical purposes, let's assume that the play, at Broadway's Imperial Theater, is not totally autobiographical. When we meet the hero, a writer named George Schneider (Judd Hirsch), he is a heartbroken shell of a man who sleepwalks around his living room poring over letters of...